[arch-releng] archisobasedir discussion.

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

  On 10/19/2010 04:40 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:10:24 -0300
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>  wrote:
>
>>    On 10/17/2010 08:22 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
>>> Am Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:18:41 -0300
>>> schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>:
>>>
>>>> archlinux has 9 chars, iso9660 level 1 is limited to 8.3,
>>>> sugestions?
>>>>
>>>> arch
>>>> archiso
>>> archlnx
>>>
>>> Heiko
>>>
>> arch wins!
>>
>> Don't worry I make this option configurable at make time via new -D
>> <install_dir>  parameter on mkarchiso.
>>
>>
> Why should it be configurable? it's just the name of the directory
> containing the files, right? I would say convention over configuration,
> unless I'm missing something.
>
> Dieter
>
For official isos its OK to have this fixed, like for publisher/application.
But mkarchiso is not limited to official media. So If I want to make an 
.iso with multiple versions on it, this is at least, one way to leave 
things easy.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
\cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1